Especially since every other book he writes has a magic dog in it or some fucking thing. I read a bit of Relentless and had to give up because the characters' actions made no sense and it was infuriating. And apparently there is a magic teleporting dog. I didn't get that far, but I could see it coming. I knew there was something magical about the dog.

The first Odd Thomas is really good, but his best IMHO is Hideaway from the early 90s. Another good one was Phantoms, but you're better off just renting the movie version...Affleck was da bomb in Phantoms, yo

Koontz - hehehehe.Well only ever read Sole Survivor, way before the movie came out, I thought it was pretty good for a trashy holiday book. Ridiculous conspiracies and evil experiments etc etc. Always remember the bit about the kid who could make things dissapear, who one day started to send parts of himself into the ether, that was really creepy.

Elitism is positing that your taste is equivalent to quality, you hate "Hamlet" does it make it "bad"? If you think so, you're one elite motherfucker.